Documentarian and animal rights activist Eric Goode has a formula, but he’s been steadily refining it — diminishing the sensationalism, focusing on substance and gradually making more respectable, if not more entertaining, series as he goes along. The thesis of pandemic sensation Tiger King (co-directed with Rebecca Chaiklin) could be boiled down to: People who own and traffic exotic animals are criminals and lunatics and rubes. Let’s laugh at them! Monsters of God The Bottom Line Less sensationalistic than its predecessors. Airdate: 9 p.m. Thursday, August 6 (HBO) Director: Eric Goode The thesis of 2024’s Chimp Crazy could be boiled…
